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A couple of days ago I had to go into Fitzroy and I was socked to find that the Night Cat wall, which used to be swell mash up of black and white work including the razor sharp Scythe Does Matter, had been taken out. Apparently some official mural is going up, or advertising, because the space is all marked out. Rotten loss to freeform street art though. Miss the Dylan that had been lurking there for some time.
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More on what's happening with this wall...
Brian,
Thank you for this commentary link. You connect a fascinating maze of links there man. I am reading your Post - Porn / Modernism:
Sexuality Beyond the Politics of Ecstasy
Honours Dissertation by Brian Ward. This is completely up my alley. Just thought I was being knife stuck up there alone ... ha ha ha ha
Jen Jewel Brown,
I forgot to get the linkage for my ever expanding collection of odd linkages. Do you know anyone who knows anyone who knows Peter Garrett? I have something I would love to tell him about where the Federal Gov't funding for the arts, in particular, literature is going. Know any professional poets? I know a lot of professional administrators and grant application writers and intellectuals and editors, hardly any professional poets though. I am trying to find out where the money goes just out of interest really. Does it get funnelled through a bunch of upper middle class intellectuals who pass it on to their friends who use it to create post modern sillyness that does nobody no good? Hmm, maybe not, but that's how it's starting to look to me.
I truly hope you are having a fantabulous day. Relax, everything is under control, I am just having fun in my own strange way.
Paul.
I have a background as a journalist, for a long time a rock journalist in particular. I once wrote about Midnight Oil that they were 'jolie laid' ie pretty ugly, a French term meaning kinda both at once. Peter fixed me with a very queer look when I suggested this in my interview. Fair enough. Other than that I'm not tight with him. We knew of each other well enough. I signed Yothu Yindi to Mushroom, and they toured with the Oils across USA. As a Minister he may make a great frontman.
I know millions of poets, very few of them endowed with the very few Arts Council Grants available. I suggest you are right about some of your inklings, but my general opinion is that shameful pennies are spent on literature and I would prefer to see coffers emptied on up-arting the masses by various scoudrelles ASAP.If they'd done that for years instead of funding multinational oil companies we would be in a much better position.
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